2015 SPEAKERS PROFILES

Leandro Agrò, Digital Product Director at Design Group Italia.
I am an awarded IxD/UX Director, IoT pioneer, patents contributor with 20+ years of design and team leadership. I served brands like Warner Bros, Unicef, British Telecom, Jansenn, Symantech, 3M, PepsiCo, etc.

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I am also founder of Frontiers of Interactions Conference -and- share holder at SrLabs (the Eye Tracking), JoinPad (Augmented Reality) and TokTv (Voice Social Platform). https://it.linkedin.com/in/leeander

Marco Bicocchi Pichi

President

Italia Startup

Marco Bicocchi Pichi after a career as an executive at the intersection of digital technology and business with international leading companies such as EDS, Ernst & Young,…

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Etnoteam, Booz Allen Hamilton, AT Kearney, in 2008 he co-founded Management3 management consulting firm focused on the automotive sector and in 2011 the sister company Price Positioning Ltd focused on the automotive aftermarket on-line. Marco has funded and has participated in founding since 2008 several technology startups. Member of the association Italia Startup from the foundation in 2012, he has been elected to the Board of Directors and in September 2014 to the newly formed Executive Committee with delegation for International Affairs. He has been named Italian Business Angel of the Year in 2014 by IBAN the Italian Business Angel association and has contributed from 2009 to 2013 the development of the largest angel club in Italy : IAG Italian Angel for Growth. Marco collaborates with several business accelerators, startup competitions, schools, and institutions on the topics of startup and innovation.

Alvise Bonivento

Senior Investment Manager,

IMI Fondi Chiusi SGR

After working in the R&D department of corporations in Silicon Valley between 2000 and 2001, Alvise was a graduate student researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California…

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at Berkeley from 2002 to 2007 with main research focus on embedded systems ad wireless systems.

From 2004 to 2007 Alvise worked as private consultant for several Italian corporations in the development of wireless systems for industrial purposes. During this period, he developed some patents in the field of wireless systems for industrial automation.

From 2007 to 2009 Alvise was at McKinsey & Co. in 2007 as an associate with responsibilities of team management working on various industrial sectors. Alvise joined Atlante Ventures in March 2009 and is currently a Senior Investment Manager. He serves as director or observer in the board of directors of several companies in the field of embedded systems, software and medical devices. He also is a lecturer of business strategy for high tech companies.

He holds a Laurea Degree in Communication Technologies from the University of Padua and a Master of Science and PhD in Electrical Enrgineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley

Jörg Brakensiek

Chairman of the Technical Workgroup

CCC / Mirrorlink

Jörg Brakensiek is Principal Architect at Nokia’s Smart Devices Business Unit, a position he’s held since April 2013. Prior to that, Jörg served as an R&D Manager for Nokia’s Location & Commerce Business Unit.

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During his tenure at the company, he also led research teams focused on ubiquitous mobile device interoperability with specific attention to the automotive domain.

Jörg works closely with multiple external partners around the globe in the automotive area. He is the original inventor and main technical architect behind the MirrorLink™ standard for car/smartphone connectivity. Since 2008 he has collaborated with the CE4A group of German carmakers and has created initial prototypes and promoted technologies for events such as IAA, MWC or CES. Jörg is currently the Chair of the Technical Work Group within the Car Connectivity Consortium, and responsible for the further development and enhancement of MirrorLink’s technical specifications. He frequently speaks and demos MirrorLink at conferences, workshops, and analyst and media events around the world.

Jörg received his diploma and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Dortmund, Germany in 1994 and 1999 respectively. He then joined Nokia’s Research Center in Germany in 1999, where he worked on various computing architecture projects, including SoC architectures, reconfigurable accelerators, multi-processors and mobile virtualization. As part of his research, Jörg has been involved in the definition and execution of multiple national and European funded research projects in this domain.

Guido Brasca

Terrestrial Radio Marketing Manager

STMicroelectronics – Member of World DAB

Guido Brasca has been working for the STMicroelectronics since his graduation in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. He started his career as an IC designer in the former Audio and Automotive…

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Division of the company, and he is currently responsible – as marketing and business development manager – of ST’s Terrestrial Radio product portfolio.

Michael Callas

CEO & Co-Founder

East London Ventures

Michael Callas is CEO & Co-Founder of East London Ventures, a Venture body which focuses on the co-creation of scalable, delightful products for clients in the banking, fashion, and music sectors…

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by applying ELV’s convergence method. Until recently he led Emerging Technology for Vodafone Group. His role at Vodafone encompassed finding the newest technology and delivering disruptive products and services across Vodafone’s global footprint which encompassed looking after incubation and venture activities. Before joining Vodafone Michael was CEO of StepOne Ventures (Madrid, San Francisco, and New York), led the Spain Tech Center Incubator in San Francisco, created theMill, was director leading Jóvenes con Futuro — an NGO dedicated to helping software engineers gain skills and experience necessary for their career development and served as Senior Advisor to BBVA Innovation & Technology.

An active figure in the startup world in the US, Europe, and Africa, Michael is a long time TechStars, StartupBootcamp, and Virgin Startup mentor to name a few. He is committed East London Venture’s convergence practice — combining startups with innovation teams, investors, and large clients to create products and joint ventures that guarantee scalability, and put smiles on the faces of users. Michael is the current Chairman of the Board for Bamboo Seed Capital in Spain, is on the board of Vodafone Ventures Egypt and Safaricom Ventures (Zindua Fund) Kenya, works with New York City Economic Development Council and is the founder of the Fintech working group for the Tech London Advocates.

Michael is an active speaker on a variety of topics and has been a guest lecturer and adjunct professor at IE Business School, IESE, IED (Madrid), the University of Texas, the State University of New York, the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), and the ESIC Business School. He’s been a keynote and panelist at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the TM Forum in San Jose, and the GMIC in San Francisco. Recently he was chosen as a Tech Tastemaker by Details Magazine in recognition of his achievements in technology, fashion, music, and their intersection. Michael is a Brownsville, Texas native and holds degrees from the State University of New York and Boston University.

Matteo Carbone

Principal

Bain & Company

Matteo Carbone is strategic consultant on the insurance and Wealth Management sector, with a specialization on innovation. Since 2006 he advised many …

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Italian and European Insurance Groups and has wide experience which include set up of industrial and commercial plans, growth strategy definition and support in the start-up of new initiatives (including Fintech), digital strategy development, insurance products development, channel strategy and commercial model definition and advice M&A deals.

Prior to Bain, Matteo was at Valdani Vicari & Associati. He graduated in Business Administration at Bocconi University.

Alessandro Caruso

Insurance and Fleet Telematics Expert

Vodafone

Alessandro Caruso is a mechanical engineer with an international MBA.His career is all about automotive and consumer services. He started his career in the tier 1 supplier Delphi Automotive as a Project Manager and after 2 years he joined Automobili Lamborghini…

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In Lamborghini, Alessandro had the chance to lead the development of Gallardo air conditioning system and then he took the role of Suppliers Quality Manager.

After about 4 years in Lamborghini, Alessandro joined Indesit Company for 8 years taking in charge the Consumer Services Division of several different international markets.

Developing new service business models is a real passion for Alessandro and since 2015 he takes care about the market development of Insurance and Fleet Telematics in Southern Europe region for Vodafone Automotive.

Massimo Cavazzini

EMEA Product Planning and Strategy

Fiat Chrysler Group

Massimo Cavazzini’s business life has been almost entirely dedicated to innovation and technology. Massimo founded in 2000 a start-up in the biometric technology business,…

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served as CMO helping publishing houses into the digital transition and lately, through communication sales and marketing roles at 3 Italia – a Hutchison Whampoa Company – gained a valuable expertise in supporting innovation leadership in complex programs execution. In 2011, Massimo joined Fiat Group Automobiles as infotainment product planner and global lead for FIAT eco:Drive becoming in 2013 responsible for the connected car in the EMEA region, to market telematics and infotainment services in a simple and exciting way. Massimo is a journalist (Italian Ordine dei Giornalisti) and graduated in Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Torino.

Cristina Cipriani

Product Marketing Manager

Novero

Born in 1969, Cristina, after her Business Administration study at the University of Florence / Italy, has developed her knowledge in Marketing for Technological Products,…

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especially on Software Applications for B2C and B2B (security, digital elaboration) in Germany.
Her passion for the Connected Car started in 2008, when she joined ATX Inc. (today known as Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services), a Telematics Service Provider, headquartered in Dallas/TX, which supported OEMs like BMW and Peugeot to introduce their Connected Car Programs on the European market.
Her mission by Novero Group is to establish the concept of the Connected Car on the market through innovative product concepts which meet the expectation of the connected driver of today and tomorrow.especially on Software Applications for B2C and B2B (security, digital elaboration) in Germany.
Her passion for the Connected Car started in 2008, when she joined ATX Inc. (today known as Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services), a Telematics Service Provider, headquartered in Dallas/TX, which supported OEMs like BMW and Peugeot to introduce their Connected Car Programs on the European market.
Her mission by Novero Group is to establish the concept of the Connected Car on the market through innovative product concepts which meet the expectation of the connected driver of today and tomorrow.

Giulio Coraggio

Partner

DLA Piper

Giulio Coraggio is the head of the Italian Technology sector and is the Global Co-Chair of the Internet of Things group at the global law firm DLA Piper. Giulio has achieved a strong expertise in drafting international technology contracts, including sourcing/outsourcing agreements…

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and cloud related agreements and in advising world leading operators on data protection, information technology and Internet law issues in relation also to the Internet of Things, connected cars, wearable technologies and eHealth and telemedicine projects.

Giulio is listed among the world leading influencers in the Internet of Things by Onalytica. Likewise he is listed in the Technology Media and Telecommunications sector by The Legal 500 EMEA and in the Information Technology sector by Chambers & Partners Europe as an individual that “stands out for his dedication, knowledge and expertise” as well as by Who’s Who Legal in the section Sports & Entertainment.

Giulio is the founder of IoTItaly, an association aimed at fostering the growth of the IoT in Italy, and a member of The Internet of Things Council. Also, he runs the blog IoTLaw on legal issues of the Internet of Things, including connected cars, and the column “Diritto al Digitale” on online technology journal TechEconomy.it. Also he is often a speaker at conferences on Internet of Things, information technology and gambling law issues.

Max Croot

IOT Client Director

KPN IOT – Internet of Things

Max has extensive experience in the IOT/M2M world and currently leads KPN’s presence in the global automotive sector as well as running their UK business.

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He previously worked in key roles at Vodafone and Aeris as well as various consulting roles and running his own asset tracking business in Eastern Europe. Max has a keen interest in all things automotive and raced professionally in his early career, and still participates in classic racing.

Alexander Decker

Innovation & Special Projects Manager

T-Systems Austria

Alexander Decker started working as self-employed software engineer in the early 1990s after graduating from a computer science college. After finishing university with a degree in business administration…

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he joined Deloitte Consulting and became a telco consultant working all over Western Europe.

After months of challenging travel with vintage motorcycles with sidecars in South Asia and from Nepal back home, Alexander hired at T-Systems Austria in 2002. After several different responsibilities within Deutsche Telekom Group, Alexander is Innovation & Special Projects Manager with a strong focus on the M2M portfolio of Deutsche Telekom now.

Alexander is married and lives with his wife and two kids in Vienna.

Andrea Giacomelli

Free-Lance GIS Engineer

Pibinko.org

Andrea Giacomelli is a free-lance “civic-environmental” engineer, with a PhD in Hydrology and an MS in Environmental Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. His core technology background comes from over twenty years …

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of experience in geographic information systems and environmental data management, with projects in international research and corporate settings. In parallel to this, since 2007 he started to develop his own line of activity in communication, marketing and awareness raising, primarily related to promotion and protection of lesser known resources in the areas of culture, environment, and open innovation.

Most of the activities he manages in this field have a strong component of community engagement and social innovation, and he as received awards and national media visibility for his main projects. He is based in Southern Tuscany, and operates both with local communities and international networks (occasionally bridging these two dimensions).

website: http://www.pibinko.org

Holger Hilmer

Senior Research Expert

Novero

Holger worked in different research and development positions at Novero in recent years. Current focus of his work is software update over the air of automotive control units. Prior to that, he was lead software architect and software project manager for the Novero product line…

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including telematics control units, car phones, and hands-free car kits. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Duisburg, Germany in 2001 with focus on fault-tolerant communication of automotive bus systems. His expertise has been developed working in different positions and roles at the University of Duisburg, IMECH research institute, Nokia Networks, and Nokia Automotive. He joined the Novero team after the management buyout of Nokia Automotive in 2008.

Martin Hunt

Business Development Director

BT Global Services

Martin has been with BT for the past 30 years. He has been major contributor to the development of ICT from its early stages . More recently Martin has been instrumental to the development of BT’s Automotive Industry Practice…

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and through his industry contacts and knowledge of the industry , has grown the practice into a significant business for BT.

He stays close to the trends in the industry and leads on proposition development, helping to realise and monetise those trends through the deployment of ICT capabilities. One of those trends ,the connected car, where security plays a key role, has led to the BT launch of a solution Ethical Hacking for Vehicles. He has worked with many blue chip companies in the Automotive & Transportation industries, including GM, VW, FCA and many more.

Brian A. Johnson

Senior Analyst

Barclays

Brian A. Johnson is currently a managing director and senior equity analyst following the U.S. autos and auto parts sector at Barclays, and leads the global autos research team. Previously, Brian was at Lehman Brothers and Sanford C. Bernstein.

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Since 2008, he has been ranked in Institutional Investor’s auto and auto parts segment. Drawing upon his consulting background and legal education, his automotive research frequently explores the industry’s management strategies, consumer trends, and restructuring options. Brian moved to sell-side equity research after an 18-year career at McKinsey & Co. and Accenture. In his consulting career, Brian worked on turnaround and growth strategies across several industries. Brian earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University in 1981. He received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1984, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and a retired member of the Illinois bar.

Olaf Korte

Head of the Broadcast Applications Group

Fraunhofer IIS

Olaf Korte, head of the Broadcast Applications Group at Fraunhofer IIS. His main focus is on standardization and implementation of digital radio standards DAB and DRM. Since 20 years, Olaf and his team are working…

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on applications, encoders and decoders for all parts of the digital radio broadcast chain. This includes multiplexer head-end solutions, chipset components and receiver implementations. In addition the Broadcast Applications Group offers consulting and project planning to customers.

Gianluca Landolina

CEO

Galata Spa

Education:

– Graduation: Transportation Civil Engineering
– MBA: SDA Bocconi

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Past Main Professional Experiences:

– Head of Planning and Control at Wind Telecommunications SpA
– Board of Directors Member at Wind Retail srl (Rome), ITnet SpA (Genoa), Tellas (Athens)
– Head of Real Estate at Wind Telecommunications SpA

Since February 2015:

– CEO of Galata Spa
– Deputy Managing Director of Cellnex Italia Srl

Francesco Mazzone

Direttore Car Sharing e Infomobilità

Aci Global

Transportation Engineer, currently Car Sharing Director and Head of traffic and mobility information services at ACI Global the ACI’s operational Company. As such, has been recently appointed CEO of Car Sharing Firenze Srl…

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the station-based Car Sharing Company based in Florence. Director General of ACI Infomobility, Board Member of Agenzia Radio Traffic, the Companies in charge of the info mobility services within the group. Previously project leader at the ACI Technical Department, in the field of consumer protection, telematics, road and vehicle safety under the FIA ( Federation Internationale de l’Automobile ) and Board Member of Euro NCAP (European New Car Assessment Programme). Coordinator of several studies, surveys and awareness campaigns in the consumer protection field, with a special focus on Road Safety awareness campaigns (HeERO on eCall, Walk Safe on pedestrian safety, ChooseESC!, Safe in tunnels, etc.).
Francesco contributed to increase advocacy mission in ACI and to steer the Real Time Traffic and Travel Information services, as Program Manager of “LuceVerde”, the regional mobility information services brand of ACI. Since 2011 he has been ACI Project Manager of the EU-Funded HeERO Project, aimed at developing the pan-European eCall service (on board 112-based emergency call). ACI representative at the ARC Europe “Telematic and Traffic Standing Committee” (until May 2014). Vice-President of TTS Italia, the National ITS Association in the period 2005-2008. He has been committed as a consultant in several transportation and traffic studies, projects on road safety and as lecturer in the framework of academic courses. Author of speeches, papers and media interviews about mobility issues, road safety, ITS, at national and international level. Often appointed to chair conferences and workshops dealing with ITS and road safety topics.

Giacomo Mori

Managing Director

Alix Partners

Giacomo has 22 years of both consultancy and industry expertise in Automotive, Aerospace and Industrial Goods. He is a Managing Director in AlixPartners Enterprise Improvement practice and co-leader of EMEA Procurement Team…

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Prior to joining AlixPartners Giacomo was Senior Manager at A.T.Kearney where he worked as project leader and member of the Automotive European Core Team over several engagements in both Europe and North America.

Prior to that Giacomo worked for Fiat Group in Italy with growing responsibilities in Manufacturing, Quality, Product Development and Strategic Marketing up to the role of Vehicle Platform Director for mid sized vehicles.

Giacomo has a proven track record in leading complex assignments leveraging his operational and managerial skill.

Rasmus Nielsen

Head of Product Management

Movimento

Rasmus Nielsen is the head of product management at Movimento, California, USA where he is responsible for the automotive OTA platform. Previously to joining Movimento, he was with Cisco Systems, California, USA in various roles in the Internet-of-Things…

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business unit most recently product manager for smart grid management. He was also a technical lead as part of New Ventures in the IoT Group driving platform development. He is the founder and partner of R&D intensive network planning companies – responsible for business requirements and integration in planning tool portfolio.

With more than ten years of R&D and business experience in industry and academia, Dr. Nielsen often acts as a subject matter expert in the field of Communications and Networks focusing on Secure Network Architectures, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Optical Network Planning and Optimization, Virtualization and Management. From 2010 to 2012 he was working in academia as a Postdoctoral Researcher and from April 2011 as Assistant Professor. He has been a visiting research at Princeton University, USA as well as a senior researcher at CTIF-USA and visiting researcher at Yokosuka Research Park, Japan. He has been the technical manager on several industrial and European Commission projects and has broad R&D knowledge in architectures, operational research and optimization.

Dr. Nielsen has a M.Sc. EE degree from Aalborg University, Denmark from where he also holds a Ph.D. EE along with an industrial Ph.D. degree. He has a larger number of publications in internationally recognized journals and conference proceedings along with two book chapters.

Gabriele Parravicini

Senior Sales Manager

eSanctuary

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Hans-Hendrik Puvogel

COO

Parkopedia

Dr. Hans-Hendrik Puvogel is COO of Parkopedia- the world’s leading parking service provider. Parkopedia provides information on 38 million parking spaces in 52 countries and can be accessed online, as a …

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mobile app or inside the car navigation systems of some of the world’s most recognized car brands. Dr. Puvogel’s main responabilities at Parkopedia includer driving sales and marketing as well as managing operations across Parkopedia’s markets in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia.

Prior to joining Parkopedia, Dr. Puvogel was General Manager at ICT Automotive and General Manager at INRIX Europe.

Fluent in 6 languages, Hans Puvogel has a 20 year track record in building and growing international businesses, as well as experience in software and data services for the automotive and telecommunications industry.

Markus Rieger

CEO and CTO of the HYVE Innovation Community GmbH

Hyve

Markus Rieger is CEO and CTO of the HYVE Innovation Community GmbH, after having been CEO of HYVE’s subsidiary company, GameCreator GmbH from October 2004 to January 2009…

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He gained experience in various companies during his studies in computer sciences at the Technical University, Munich. After his engagement with CyberSymetrix IT and the YadaYada GmbH, he worked for WebToGo Mobiles Internet GmbH for 3 years. Markus Rieger consults clients from various industries and regularly gives speeches about Open Innovation, Co-Creation and Online-Communities

Gabriele Ronchini

Founder & Executive Director

Digital Magics

With a passion for digital and interactive technologies, Gabriele Ronchini has always been at the forefront of technology and actively pursues issues relating to new media outlets. As a member of the Ministry of Communications’ Economic Commission on Digital Television…

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,Ronchini has actively contributed to various specialized publications and regularly lectures at seminars and university courses.

After earning his degree in Computer Science and specializing in Artificial Intelligence, in 1991 Gabriele Ronchini began his career with Inferentiaand in 1996 took charge of the startup company Inferentia Interactive, whose goal was to become a main player on the emerging market of interactive media.

In 1999, Ronchini joined IBM Consulting, which specializes in e-business consulting, and was assigned with the task of maintaining the relationships with the group’s most important customers.

In 2000 he was at the helm of Grey Interactive Italia, a company belonging to the American network Grey Global Group.

In 2004 he became a founding member and Vice President of Digital Magics. Ronchini is responsible for AdTech and Internet of Things (IoT) sectors.

Ronchini founded then the startup 4w MarketPlace, which he still leads with enthusiasm and dedication.

Hans Sailer

Sales Director

HYVE – the innovation company

Hans Sailer has a Telco background, working as COO assistent & strategy process master at Telekom Austria. Together with a consortium he earned the Austrian state price for electromobility in 2011 as project leader…

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for the consulting company Cirquent. At the moment he is sales director at the Munich innovation agency HYVE which specialises in open innovation, market research and innovation design. Since 2012 he is also the initiator and organizer of the M2M Forum CEE (www.m2m-forum.eu) in Vienna. He has a university degree in business administration and is lecturer at the New Design University in Austria.

Hans is married and lives with his wife and his son in Vienna.

Giampaolo Santarsiero

Master Principal Sales Consultant

Oracle – Member of CVTA

Giampaolo Santarsiero is a Master Principal Sales Consultant working for the EMEA ISV/OEM Global Sales Team at Oracle, helping the ISV and OEM to build the solutions for the future…

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He’s a TOGAF Enterprise Architect and ITIL Certified Practitioner to support the design of the tomorrow’s IoT solutions while expanding the business possibilities with the best Cloud Integration in the Automotive Industry. He’s based in Italy and speaks Italian, English and Spanish.

Robert Schuessler

VP EMEA

Bright-Box

Automotive Business Development Expert for connected cars Big Data systems. Established and developed profitable and sustainable businesses in the Americas, Eastern Europe, Russia and Asia. Focus on automotive Big Data systems…

Master degree in Economics and Finance. 3 years experience as controller, 10 years in the risk management arena, 2 of which as Credit Analyst and 5 abroad (London) as Credit Manager in different sectors: factoring, corporate banking and payment services…

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Since 2001 managed teams of various dimensions (up to 15 people) also in international environment. Between 2001 and 2004 working as Due Diligence manager of a regional development agency managing an investment portfolio of €50ml.3 years Operations Manager of Progetto Manifattura, the first italian cleantech incubator, coordinating a team of 6 people and managing a €2ml budget. Currently Trentino Sviluppo Innovation & Startup Unit Manager, coordinating a team of 6 people, responsible of 6 incubators and all the startup programs. Mentor of about 80 companies in 3 years.

Matthias Unbehaun

Executive Director

TISA

Matthias Unbehaun received a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, a PhD. in Mobile Communications from the Royal Institute of Technology …

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in Stockholm, Sweden, and he was visiting scientist at Stanford University in California. He worked for more than 15 years with ITS for different automotive OEMs and suppliers. Since 2013, Matthias is the Executive Director of TISA on a part-time assignment. He is certified PMP and IEEE Senior Member.

Arnd Weil

Senior Vice President & General Manager

Nuance Automotive

Arnd Weil is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Automotive Business Unit at Nuance. He is responsible for driving innovative embedded and connected voice, multimodal and content delivery solutions for the automotive industry globally…

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Arnd joined the Nuance Automotive Business in 2002 when the company started equipping the first vehicles with speech technology and has been running the Automotive and Consumer Electronic Business Unit since 2007. Since then, Nuance Automotive has shown double digit growth working with the world’s leading automotive brands, including Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Ford, Toyota, GM, Chrysler, Fiat, and many others, and equips more than 30 million new cars per year with Nuance solutions, which give drivers all over the world safe and convenient access to in-car functions as well as off-board content.

Arnd Weil led several acquisitions including Harman Speech Business, SVOX and Tweddle Connect expanding the Nuance assets to further accelerate innovation and meet the increasing demand of the automotive industry for natural language and connected car solutions.

Prior to joining Nuance Automotive, Arnd worked as Product Manager and Technical Consultant at Dictaphone and L&H, and held various positions at the Research Center of Deutsche Telekom. Arnd graduated with a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Darmstadt.